And to Think Today is Supposedly My Day Off... Saturday, November 1

I only had four things on my schedule for today but they were all training/work related and they all ate up the hours to my day and stretched way into the late evening too.

LONG RUN

At 11:30am my running partner Rocket and I headed out to the Asan lake, props here to Snickers for being our personal handsome chauffeur.  The plan was to get in a solid long rung.  I had clocked in 28.56kms this week but I was still 16.44kms under this week's goal of 45kms.  I had told Rocket that I wanted to do a 15km but in my head I was hoping to continue on for a bit extra and get in my goal distance.  So that is exactly what happened.  As we rounded the lake for the third time, I asked Rocket if she wanted to continue and then I raced off alone, eager to get my goal.  Today's run was definitely a personal record for Rocket and I running as partners with regards to our pacing.  My pacing goal for my short runs on my own is to keep it at 5:20mins/km or under but my pacing goal for my partner/long runs is to keep it under 5:50mins/km.  Rocket runs farther than me but I run faster so given that plus the fact the increase in distance comes with an expected decrease in pacing, the 5:50mins/km seemed very appropriate.  Well today, today not only did will kill our long run foal pace but we also killed my short run pacing!!! Clocked in 18.01kms at 5:19mins/km!!!

FLYER WORK

No sooner did I shower and eat after my long run but then it was off to hit downtown and hand out promo flyers foe Hulk's.  Approaching random strangers and hoping they'll take your flyer is one thing but to have a neighbouring business stand by you and also hand out flyers, now that's just rude.  That's exactly what happened today.  We have a favourite corner at which we stand at and do our flyer work.  All the neighbouring street vendors know of us because we've introduced ourselves to them all and wr always try to be supportive of them and their business by never interrupting their customers at their stands and always picking up the flyers that random people litter by them.  Today a new chicken shop down the street from where we stand opened up and sent two of their staff to hand out flyers.  One stood right beside me and though I was uncomfortable and felt awkward being apart of the flyer bombardment that was going on there apparently someone else took great offence.  

One of the local food vendors both Snickers often buy from was definitely not liking those chicken workers handing out flyers in what he said was "our space".  We have no rights to the streets, no one does, but there are surely common courtesy, unwritten rules that exist and perhaps more so with this particular area in which we do our flyer work.  They are definitely not fond of any littered flyers but yet the rest of the other downtown streets are littered with so many.  So this street vendor, I can see him getting annoyed and eyeing the one girl standing by me, weaving in and out to hand passer byers her flyer right as I try to do so, so he goes and talks to her.  He then returns to his shop and she continued.  He then comes flying around, out of his vendor, grabs all the flyers out of the girls hands, and goes marching off to God knows where.  I have no idea as to where he went but he came back empty handed and the chicken girl and her male coworker stormed off rather ticked off.  I honestly didn't know if he was going to do that to my flyers too, after all I didn't know what he had told her.  Snickers and I suspect he had told her to leave and find a new place to hand out flyers because we continued handing out flyer with no problem and then bought a snack from that particular vendor's shop.

BOXING

One of the things I've started doing recently is taping myself box on the weekends.  I've started doing this on account that I used to always watch others box, analyze their moves, their styles, and then try to incorporate it into my boxing.  However, and Snickers always raises this point whenever I'm training for a fight, the focus shouldn't be on the other boxer but on myself.  Picking up extra pointers and whatnot here and there is great but he really wants me to clean up my own boxing and a part of doing so involves me seeing and acknowledging where it is I need to fix things up.  It's always easier to point out someone else's weaknesses and, trust me, Snickers points out my weaknesses but half the time I argue that I don't do as such and have fixed myself up.  Well, try it one day.  Record yourself and then watch yourself doing whatever it is you want to improve upon.  Suddenly it's so easy to pick out things and pinpoint what you have to work on because you're no longer the participant but instead are the bystander.  That's exactly what I did tonight.  I video taped my boxing and then I sat down and dissected it round by round.  I did ten rounds of sandbag work today so that worked out to be a little under an hour of extra self study time with all the stops, pauses and rewinds I pressed.

BACKGROUND WORK

There's always so much background work that needs to be done at Hulk's and by "background work" I'm referring to anything and everything beyond the physical labor that comes with coaching members.  Whether it's updating the books, calculating the goals of new Hulkies or reporting back to sponsors, the paper work and computer work keeps me more than busy.  Today I had the November issue of our newsletter to type up and print out, a few pages of our business profile book to create, and I had lots of emailing to do -- my manager, promoters, IFBA President, and sponsors.  The Korean Beat 13th Boxing Competition is coming up very soon and so I had that to do with too -- getting the uniform letting printed and picking out who among our Hulkies would be ready to represent on our amateur team.  There are five possible Hulkies that I'd love to fight on behalf of Hulk's Boxing, with a possible sixth who'd be the only female on the team.  After much discussion, Snickers and I both agreed strongly on three of my six possible team members.  Now to approach them when they come in on Monday and ask if they want to participate.

My first draft pickings for our Hulk's Amateur Team:

1.  Kato -- our prized amateur boxer

2.  Wow -- our leading sponsor and definitely one of our most impressive boxers

3.  The Kid Next Door -- the Chicken Godfather's son

4.  Baby Popeye -- one of my mini Hulkies!!!

5.  KS the SK  (SK = the Silent Killer)

6.  Ninja Girl -- the only female on the team and she's got amazing potential because she's focused